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The well-known entrepreneur Peter Warnøe has for years been warned by its auditor on a millionlån, which has acquired the Danish business authority to suspect him of money laundering.
Five years in a row, the auditor in his company BBW Invest ApS namely equipped the accounts with a ‘lack of conclusion’ – a kind of red flag.
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Peter Warnøe (second from left) was the investor in the tv programme ‘Lion’s den’. In the fall of 2019 withdrew after being reported to the police in a case of illegal shareholder loans. Photo: Per Arnesen/DR
It is due to the Warnøe not have been able to prove the opposite, the auditor, where a loan of five million dollars comes from.
’the Management (Peter Warnøe, red.) have not been able to provide sufficient and suitable evidence,’ writes the auditor in the latest financial statements.
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According to Peter Warnøe is there not something startling in the warnings.
’the Company’s auditor has made a usual subject in the financial statements, because the loan is not repaid,’ he writes in an email to Ekstra Bladet.
But there is nothing usual about it.
As described earlier in Ekstra Bladet began in Düsseldorf in the spring of 2019 to investigate the loan, which was regarded as ‘suspicious’.
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Peter Warnøe was in the autumn of 2019 reported to the police, because he for years has taken illegal loan of at least 20 million dollars in his companies. ‘A way to survive’, he called it. Photo: Asger Ladefoged/Ritzau Scanpix
Peter Warnøes explanation of money’s origin was so vague, that both the fraud squad and the tax administration was informed.
’There is, thus, possible suspected black money/money laundering,’ wrote an employee of the Danish business authority in an email to the tax administration.
the 56-year-old Peter Warnøe has previously rejected the opposite Ekstra Bladet, that there is something to come for.
‘I have not heard from the TAX thereon or any other authority,’ he wrote in the connection.
the core of The issue is five million crowns, which in 2013 came into Peter Warnøes company.
He explained to the Danish business authority that it was a loan from a business partner in Dubai.
’the Money came from Mr. Pinchin in Dubai and was organized by Mr. Rakesh, who worked for Mr. Pinchin,’ wrote Warnøe in an email to the agency, which Ekstra Bladet has had access to.
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Peter Warnøe (th.) has for many years been a part of crown prince Frederik’s inner circle. Here are the Adele concert in 2016. Photo: Anthon Unger/Ritzau Scanpix
In the email, he added, that there never was made a written loan agreement. And according to Warnøe can millionerne not be paid back.
’I have never met Mr. Pinchin and Mr. Rakesh, I have no contact to more. He is from India, and it is shown shifted back to India from Dubai,’ he explained in the e-mail to the Danish business authority.
the Extra Leaf has previously tried to get Peter Warnøe to deepen its relationship to the above-mentioned persons, but without success.
He explained to the Danish business authority, that he now can not do otherwise than to keep the five million dollars.
’My opinion is, therefore, that the loan will not be repaid, in and with I nothing have heard in many years and there is no evidence from the lender,’ has Warnøe written to the agency.
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Peter Warnøes mother is Anne Fabricius-Bjerre, who was previously married to the well-known composer Bent Fabricius-Bjerre. Photo: Claus Lunde/Ritzau Scanpix
It has not been possible to get a comment to the case by either the tax administration or the fraud squad.
It is therefore to be seen how the two authorities have responded to the notification from the Danish business authority.